How Hyperconvergence Supports the Demands of COVID-19 Reporting

The unique nature of the pandemic vaccination process presents several challenges, including inventory management, data reporting and follow-up appointment scheduling.

As hospitals and health systems seek to overcome these — while simultaneously maintaining or resuming normal operations — many are encountering immediate but acute IT network and infrastructure needs.

Rigorous, unprecedented data reporting requirements for COVID-19 vaccine administration are putting hospital IT infrastructure to the test. Hospitals that have upgraded to hyperconverged infrastructure have a head start on managing the new abundance of data processing and network traffic.

Data locality enables data to be processed where it is stored, instead of sending it to a physical data center for processing. This reduces bottlenecks related to collecting and running the information, which in turn reduces the inefficiency of daily reporting at offsite vaccination clinics.